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"THE SUN" WILL PUBLISH AN EXTRAORDINARY EDITION, GIVING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE CORONATION, WITH A MOST EXQUISITE LIKENESS THE QUEEN; AND OTHER NOVELTIES, NEVER YET ATTEMPTED BY ANY OTHER PAPER. SUN Office, 112, Strand, London. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at minutes past Three o' Clock. t At 11,.'""t'' --• ~., ti'r 4 et A•: . ‘ ''' ?' ° eliLe , Wfx amn. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1838. The acme of Commons gave intimation last night, by expressing a wish to postpone several measures, that the Members are weary of their legislative labours, and with as soon as possible after the Coronation to disperse over the country. We apprehend that the public fully share their feeling of weariness, and would not be sorry to change the hope that something may be done next Session, for the cer tainty that little or nothing will be done this. We tolerate the length of even Richardson's novels for the sake of amusement ; but endless talk about business, which leads to no performance, excites something like disgust. The pub- lie is as weary of the House as the House is weary of its labours, and though there is not the slightest reason from past experience to suppose that the next session will differ from that now drawing to a close, yet, as it has not yet been tried, and as hope always predominates over the untried and un . known, the public would now willingly see this session brought to a close. One of the measures which remains to be disposed of is the Tithe Bill for Ireland. We mentioned yesterday, in addition to the many meetings which have already taken place in other counties, that there had been alarge meeting in Queen's County. At every one of these meetings resolutions have been passed, declaring that nothing short of the abso lute and unconditional abolition of tithes will satisfy the people. We think their decision just, and have not the smallest doubt that they will be ultimately successful. There is not the least chance, therefore, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S plan will settle the tithe question to the satisfaction of the people. To carry it forward will only provoke discontent. Is was, however, stated in the House of Common, on the 14th and 15th of May, by Lord STANLEY, Mr. SHAW, and Sir ROBERT PEEL, that the clergy of Ireland are at present perfectly well satisfied w;th their condition. The Protestant landlords, we pre sume, pay them, and the Clergy like them as pay masters much better than the occupiers. Now as the Clergy are contented, and as the proposed scheme would only dissatisfy the bulk of the Irish, it would, in our estimation, be wisdom in the Ministry to let it, with other things, lie over till next Session. There is no particular call on them to deal with the sub ject, as the parsons are fully satisfied. They neither cause the evils of the system, nor did the attempt to improve it originate with them. The people, by their resistance to it, are the authors of the attempt, and they should be allowed in our judgment to complete their own work. Ever since the Legislature first took the matter in hand, under the guidance of Lord STANLEY, it has only added to the mischief. It has taken an additional million sterling out of the pockets of the public to give the Irish psrlorie, and it has neither settled the question nor satis fied the Irish. If the experience of the last eight years be not altogether discarded as worthless, the Ministers should withdraw their tithe measure, as relating to a matter which there is no hope the Parliament can settle. Some of our readers may ask us how the Clergy are to be provided for ? We answer, let the Protestant landlords provide for them—let them be provided for by the volun tary contributions of their congregations as the Dissenting ministers and the Catholic priests are provided for. They will then learn to love their flocks. There was a time when we thought it was the duty of the State to take care at least of the present generation of the Irish clergy ; but their recent conduct has altered our opinion. They have laboured so zealously and so successfully to prevent all settle ment of the tithe question—they have, with such un christian malice, persecuted their Catholic fellow subjects— they have sought so pertinaciously to excite discord and hatred amongst different classes of the people, that wehave come to regard them as public enemies, and consider that it would be a public wrong to provide for them. We are very glad to observe the unanimity of opinion which prevails between Mr. WALLACE and the CHAN. CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, relative to the injurious effect of the toll monopoly on the road between Dublin and Limerick. It is now several months since we—following up some observations made by the Hon. Member for Greenock relative to the exorbitant tolls collected upon this great line of road—endeavoured to direct public attention to the consequences of such a tax as regarded the internal trade of Ireland ; and therefore it is not without much gratification that we find the Government resolved upon the introduction of a Bill for the correction of this abuse in the course of the ensuing session. A Bill autho rising the collection of the present rates of toll will shortly pass both Houses, but its operation will be limited to one year, in order that the country may be prepared for some measure of reform. Too much praise cannot be given to Mr. WALLACE for the zeal with which he continues to direct his attention to the effecting of a speedy and cheap intercourse between all parts of the United Kingdom. Instead of frittering away his time, as half the Members of the House of Commons do, with scores of imperfectly un derstood subjects, he wisely confines himself to the effecting of one great measure of reform, which he knows to be equally within the sphere of his knowledge and his power successfully to achieve. Were his example generally fol lowed, more well-considered measures of reform would be effected in one Session of Parliament than would other wise be in six—each of as many years' duration. The subject of Church Extension in Scotland was brought under the consideration of both Houses of Parlia ment last night, on the presentation of petitions from the General Assembly, complaining of the deficiency in the Church accommodation, and praying for a grant of the public money. Lord MELBOURNE stated that it was not the intention of her MAJESTY'S Government to bring for ward any measure for extending Church accommodation in Scotland this session, and that they had seen no reason to depart from the views which they had adopted, and which had been announced to the House on a former occasion. The petition of the Assembly was lauded and magnified by Lord ABERDEEN, who took upon himself to declare that it was adopted unanimously, which is not the fact. No opposi tion was made to the petition ; but that is a very different thing from its being approved of by every Member of the Assembly, as the Noble Lord wished it to be understood. It is in the highest degree satisfactory to find that Lord MELBOURNE remains firm to his purpose of not giving a single farthing of the public money to the Church of Scot land. Such funds as are legitimately available for the wants of that Church, namely, unexhausted teinds, and the teinds and rents formerly enjoyed by the Scottish Bishops will be given up, as far as they may be required, to supply any deficiency that may be found in the means of religious instruction in country parishes, due regard being had to the interests of those individual Clergymen who have prior claims on these funds. But it is to be borne in mind that no case of religious destitution, or anything approaching to it, has yet been made out. So far from it, there is in in Edinburgh and Glasgow a superabundance of religious accommodation—a supply far exceeding the demand, as is evident from the vast number of unlet sit tings, both in the churches established by law, and in the chapels belonging to the Dissenters. It may not perhaps suit the dignity of Dr. CHALMERS, the great spiritual O'Connell of Scotland as he calls himself, to include the Dissenting chapels among places of worship, of which any account is to be taken in estimating the quantum of religious accommodation which to be found in Scotland ; but we can assure the Reverend Champion of intolerance that the people at large, who take a common sense view of these things, and out of whose pockets he would take the money for endowing his new superfluities, entertain a totally dif rent view of the subject. Nothing will ever persuade them that there is any necessity for new churches, while the old ones are many of them half empty. A little bit of a scene occurred on the presentation of the Assembly's petition in the Commons. It was discovered that the venerable Assembly had committed a fatal blun der in praying for a grant of money without having first obtained her MAJESTY'S sanction. This was an informality which could not be got over, and the petition, very much to the mortification of a certain party, was consequently rejected. The House of Commons adjourned last night at half past nine o'clock, and sometime previously the CHANCEL- Lon of the EXCHEQUER postponed the Sugar Duties ques tion till Monday. We take that postponement to be signi ficant of a doubt on his part whether he can carry through his proposition to reduce the bounty only 7s. per cwt. on the average, or little more than one-sixth, instead of abo lishing it., as proposed by Mr. CLAY, and postponing the commencement of the reduction to Oct. 10, instead of causing the abolition to take effect from the sth of next month. We hope it is so, because both the public and the revenue would be served by Mr. CLAY'S proposition being adopted. On such a question many of the usual sup porters of Ministers will be against them. The Tories are under no obligation on pretext of keeping up the revenue to support them ; the landed gentlemen, who are rather notorious for making laws to fill their own pockets, have an interest adverse to the bounties ; and there remains in fact only the West India interest on which the Minis ters can rely, to enable them to bestow the public money on the sugar owners. The planters are not, in consequence of their conduct towards the negroes, a popular body ; they have already dipped.too deeply in our pockets ; they are not all ranged on the Treasury Benches, and we cannot therefore see a single motive which the Ministers have for not acceding to Mr. CLAY'S motion. From the postpone ment of the question last night we infer that Mr. CLAY will be successful, and that the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER and the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE are sensible that they must not sacrifice the public interest to enrich the sugar growers. In the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER'S speech on this subject this day week, he read a statement to the House to this effect :—On 9,121 cwt. of Muscovado sugar to be re fined a duty was paid of 245. per cwt., yielding to the re venue a sum of 10,9451. It produced 6,696 ca t. of double refined sugar, on which at 435. 2d. per cwt. the Crown paid as bounty 14,4521. 1,216 cwt. of Bastards, on which at 241, per cwt. the Crown returned 1,439/. On the treacle and dirt remaining the Crown paid nothing, making the whole EIMI it returned to the refiner of the 9,121 cw-t.of Moscovado sugar 15,9111. Deducting the duty paid, the balance against the public was 4,966/., which is equivalent to a clear bounty of 10s. 10d. above the duty on every cwt. of raw sugar. Now the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER proposes to re duce the bounty on refined sugar one-sixth, or en tho average 75., and one-sixth of the duty, 245., is 4s. per cwt. According to his own statement, therefore, he will still leave a clear bounty, equivalent on every cwt. of raw sugar refined of Gs. 10d., and of 9s. at least on every cwt. of double refined sugar. For all the purposes of commerce and for the public benefit, he might as well leave the bounty as it is. His reduction will still enable the refiner to export double refined sugar ; the price will be kept up in the market, and the public will continue to be swindled by legislative legerdemain out of two or three millions annually. It now turns out, we believe, - that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not make the concessions to the Drogheda deputation, regarding the renewal of the Bank of Ireland Charter, for which he very generally got credit ; and that he merely confined himself to a qualified opinion, leaving the matter in the hands of the Joint Stock Bank Committee. Now, this may be the case, but it strikes us as strange, that Mr. O'CoNNELL, who formed . one of the deputation, should have so far misunderstood the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S views, as to afterwards have given a sort of authentic currency to the rumour, by an nouncing at a General Meeting of the Proprietary of the National Bank, that the monopoly was in future to be confined to Dublin, and a circle of five miles round it. It now seems that the Mayor of , Drog heda and his colleagues, (whom we believe to hate bean as inefficient Ambassadors as could have well been sent from any unfortunate locality upon so momen tous an errand), have walked up the hill with about the same success as a certain King of France is once reported to have done, and that no beneficial results are likely to attend their mission. 'We have been told that the good Mayor was so annoyed that his own august name had not been with becoming respect announced in the Court Cir cular, that he forgot every other matter in pondering over this one great calamity. The deputation from the City of Dublin—a very different sort of body by the way—are to have an interview with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER upon the business to-day, and we trust, and indeed expect, that they will, from their knowledge of business, and the influence which they will bring to bear upon the question, be able to achieve something more useful than has yet been effected. We do not think it right that statements of public men should be given in a garbled and distorted shape to the• world ; at the same time we would remind the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER that he will acquire a good deal of reputation, or positive unpo pularity, by the mode in which the Bank of Ireland Char ter may be definitively settled. Already there are many murmurs, we can assure him, respecting the method in which the evidence taken before the Joint Stock Commit tee, even for instance yesterday, when Mr. WILSON the Governor of the Bank of Ireland was examined, to esta blish no less a point than that the last panic was consider ably diminished, in consequence of there having been not more than one bank of issue in Dublin ; it would have been but fair play to have intimated to those now in town who are deeply interested in the affair, in order that they might have had an opportunity to furnish such questions as would have best elicited the truth. We cannot conclude with out drawing public attention to what appears to us to be the unanswerable petition of the citizens of Dublin ; it is a document which will repay perusal ; and we imagine the advocates of the Bank of Ireland will have some difficulty in rebutting the charges contained in it. Since writing the above the following Deputation, con sisting of Members of Parliament, waited on the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER :—Lord Brabazon, Henry Chester, Esq., Sir W. Somerville, Thomas Wyse, Esq., Daniel O'Connell, Esq., Joseph Hume, Esq., George Evans, Esq., H. Bridgeman, Esq., Fitzstephen French, Esq., Morgan John O'Connell, Esq., and several others ; also Thomas Dixon, Esq., Ignatius Callaghan, Esq., \Vil liam Hodges, Esq., James Dwyer, Esq., Jeremiah Durme, Esq., accompanied by Paul L. Patriot, Esq. The Deputation, we understand, were received cour teously by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and the objects stated by Messr s . H ODGES and CALLAGHAN. Messrs. O'CoNNELL and HUME, in firm and bold lan guage, insisted on the right of the citizens of Dublin to equal privileges in banking with the Bank of Ireland, and a very interesting discussion ensued ; the result appeared to be, that opportunity would be given to the citizens of Dub lin to examine witnesses before the Committee. Unless the American Government adopt some different method for punishing the aggressions of " patriots" on the Canadian frontier than that which appears to be sanc tioned by the existing laws, we can see no prospect of se curity for the people of Canada, or of an amicable arrange ment of the points at issue between the two Governments. According to the laws of the States, it appears that the punishment of offenders was not left to the executive, as in other countries, but to a jury, composed of citizens, who had an interest in the success of the accused, and who pro bably furnished them with the means to attack and plunder their neighbours. If the same system were adopted on the other side, a continued state of warfare must be the inevit able result. It would have been as reasonable to expect that the ARMSTRONGS and attozs, on the " debateable land," would have punished the Scottish borderers, who lived by plundering the English, as it would be to suppose that the men of Buffalo and Detroit will find true bills against any one of the lawless borderers that infest the Canadian boundary. The Americans themselves—those not infected with the Canada fever—seem astonished at the acquittal of the two leaders of the plundering army, but we can see no cause for astonishment. On the con trary, it would have bee❑ matter of astonishment had there been any other result. The system is an utter mockery of the law of nations ; and unless Congress pass some Act which will place the Government of the United States on a footing with those of other civilized nations, they can expect only war, or something as bad, wherever they come in con tact with other countries. The affair of Texas well illus trates the principle on which their system of international law is founded. Congress came to a resolution not to an nex that country to the Union. The Senate of Texas, as it is called, have set them at defiance, and rejected the re solution of the House of Representatives. When the question of the boundary line is settled between England and the United States, the Government of the latter will find themselves in the same position as regards the Senates of Maine and Vermont ; for it has been plainly intimated, that unless the line is drawn according to their wishes they will not adhere to the arrangement. Lord DURHAM will find these circumstances not the least of the. impediments to the difficult task which he has undertaken ; and he will discover that unless the Central Government give assurance that treaties will be enforced, it will be in vain to attempt any settlement. We shall otherwise be obliged to keep up a large force in Canada, and the two countries will remain in a feverish state, as at present, till some violent collision takes place, and ends in war. The Honourable Member for Galway (Mr. LYNCH), has published an excellent address to his constituents in support of the Irish Poor-law Bill. We have not space, and fortunately there is now no urgent occasion, for making such extracts from this pamphlet as we should have felt it serviceable to Ireland to make, had it attracted our notice before the Irish Poor-law Bill was so favour ably received by the House of Lords. Mr. LYNCII takes precisely the same view of the Poor-law Bill that we did from the commencement. He regards it as imperfect, but contends that its imperfections arc ca pable of easy amendment, whereas the advantage s which it will confer on Ireland are priceless. " While ensuring relief to the poor," he observes, " this measure will create a motive among all classes made liable to poor-rates, which cannot fail to promote efforts for improving the social corvlition of the labouring classes—namely, self-interest. This motive will combine landlords and tenants, Pro testants and Catholics, now driven apart by mis taken views, to unite for the common weal, and the ends of good Government. And while this mea sure will lessen the heavy burden of pauper-relief now pressing on the poorer landholders and traders, by diffusing it over property, thus enforcing contributions from our absentees, the owners of property ill obtain a controul in the administration of relief, which at present they cannot acquire or exercise, although the value of their estates is actually curtailed by the pauper charge. I trust that no consideration whatsoever will now defer the progress of this Bill, and that, in the deliberations of the Upper House of Parliament, its details may, if possible, be rendered still more adequate to its great and salutary object—the relief of all classes of the destitute poor in Ireland." These re marks are in the very spirit of the arguments which we hav e been for years in the habit of employing, in support of some such Bill for Ireland, as the one now on the table of the House of Lords. The Parrs Journals of Thursday have al! been received, but they do not contain any domestic news of interest. The eyes of the French Journalists arc naturally turned towards England, in which, of course, it is expected that every day will reveal something new about the Coronation. The whole of the latest advices from Spain are summed up in the following extracts : FRONTIER OF SPAIN. (Private Correspondence of the Constitutionnel.) Hallo, JUNE I2.—The Carlists are collecting all their troops at two points, Tolosa and Estella, in order to keep our Generals in a state of uncertainty. Espartero has his head-quarters here, and is thus able to protect all points that are threatened. All the corps which are in Castille, except that which is under the command of Zurbano, will go and join Oraa, who has or,:ers to attack Cabrera. BAYOtiNg, JUNE 16.—Don Carlos was at Tolosa yesterday. The Journal du Havre gives an account of the attempts to assasi. nate General Ingerac, which differs but little from that already pub. fished. The General had the jaw completely shattered, but he is not dead. The assassin has escaped, but it is be!ie,.ed that he will bo soon taken. There is nothing particu'ar in this affair •itis an act of private revenge, such as are happily very rare among us. The country is perfectly tranquil. The Carlist correspondence of Bayonne of 17th, continues to affirm that the Pretender is making preparations to re-take the line of Ernani. It was even supposed that the attack of this place would commence on the 20th of June, but all these statements arc merely reports, without any foundation. Manuel Arregui, an accomplice of Munagorri, having been condemned to death by the Military Commission of Guispuscoa, the Pretender has pardoned him. M. Armand Laity, cx Lieutenant of Artillery, and author of an historical narrative under the title of Prince Napoleon at Strasburg, was arrested at flu e o'clock this morning at his lodgings, rue Feydeau, N 0.30. The Diariodeßoma 9th inst. announces that Ahrriest Fethi Paella, Turkish Ambassador Extraordinary to his Majesty the King of the French, arrived et Rome on the Bth. We learn that the numerous witnesses in the affair of Gener al de Brossard, both in France and Algiers, have been summoned to appear in person at Perpignan on the 20th of August next, on which day the proceedings before the Court Martial will commence. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, the Order of the Day was the continuation of the debate on the Budget of the Ways arrt Means for the year 1835-39. After various observations of dif ferent Members, the whole was put to the vote and agreed to by a majority of 248 to 37. Le Commerce. Subjoned are extracts from South American Papers re ceived this morning. The next arrivals are likely to be very important : (From the Correia Official, April 21.) • Rio DL JANIE RO.— Accounts from the province of Rio Grande do Sul, to 13th March, are favourable. A letter from Porto Alegre gives the important information that the rebel force, under the corn. mind of Jose Marcono de Matos, and which had abandoned the siege of that place, had been encountered and completely defeated by Colonel Loureiro, who has made seventeen officers and a great number of the rebels prisoners, above seventy killed remaining on the field of battle. Our loss was next to nothing, because the rebels, being surprised when they were preparing to charge our people, the swords of the Imperialists were upon them. You may be assured that the chief force of the rebels is totally defeated. Further, the April lett ers from Porto Alegre, ofthe 15th and 16th March, state that a very consid era bl e port i on of the province was under the leg al authorit y. The Gover nmen t f orce s were had fled from advantageously oml posted agu a r ywith so m at u much h points ; the t ra i tor Bento Ma noel precipitation on the app ro ach of the Government troops, that he abandoned p arts of his baggage ; and wholether there was vnioncdeo.ubtTthheatpaorrtdiesar nwsocufldsesnooornib,,o be completely exertin g themselves restored in the to procure his re election by the province ; but the general opinion was favourable to the Regent, ad interim, and to the two Ministers, Torres and Calmon. APRIL 17.—Accounts from Desterto, in the province of Catarina, to the 0 4th of March, gives deplorable accounts of immense damage in that town and neighbourhood by an inundation caused by a prodigious fall of rain after sixty days' drought. APRIL 18.—Despatches from Porte Alegro of the 19th March, give official reports of another advantage gained by the Government troops, who had on the 17th made themselves masters of Villa do Rio Pardo, which was occupied by the insurgents under Bento Manoel. APRIL 21.—This is the day on which the electors of the empire are to deposit in the electoral urn their votes, which are to decide on the Regency, and the fate of Brazil. The Queen Dowager has determined on going to Malta before the equinox, for eight months, and her Majesty intends applying for the use of a man-of-war for the occasion. Illadeira was at one time spoken ef, but the preference is given to Malta, her Majesty not wishing to spend her income out of the British dominions. Lord and Lady Sheffield, and the Misses Hudson and Hope Johnston, are the only persons yet mentioned as about to accompany the Queen Dowager, who is, we are happy to say, very well at present, but fears the winter in England. PARISH OF ST. MARYLEBONE.--At a ineetina of the Guardians of the Poor, hel d y esterda y , Mr. Joseph in the chair, t it was unanimously resolved that all the people (about 1,400) in the workhouse be regaled with roast-beef, plumb-pudding, and strong beer on the day of the Queen's Coronation. The Vestry intend giving the same to all the men (about 300) that sweep and water the streets, and break stones for the -roads, besides their day's pay. Richard Spoor, Esq., of Sunderland, was pre sented to her Majesty at the Drawing-room, on Thursday last, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 183.3. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. SEANE AND OTHERS. This case, which has occupied the attention of the Court since Wednesday last, is still proceeding. A great number of witnesses on the part of the defendants have been examined, and it is supposed that the reply and summing up will occupy the greater part of Monday. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) Nothing of public interest occurred in either Court this morning. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JUNE 22, •.M —Wind W.S.W., strong breeze; P.M. ditto, moderate.—Arrived and proceeded for the River, the Mona, Owen, from Calcutta; Mary Ann, Tarbutt, from Madras. Sailed from the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th April, and St. Helena on the Bth ult., the Queen, Seal, for Newfoundland. Came down from the River and remain, with the outward bound as before, the Lavinia, Nicholls, for Alexandria. The barque Hamilton, Ross Robb, for the Cape of Good Hope, all well in Dungeness, on the 21st June. PoersmouTu, JUNE 22.—Wind W., hard gale, squally.— Arrived her Majesty's ship Athol, from Quebec, and sailed the 20th May. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed the Sylva, Powlins, for Rotterdam. FALMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind W. to W.S. W., fresh gale and squally. —Arrived the Spey (packet), from Rio Janeiro; sailed 22d April; Bahia, Bth ult. ; and Pernambuco, 16th. Monarch, Salmon, from Rio Janeiro. Sailed April 19, her Majesty's ship Messenger, for Plymouth. Arrived off, the Palma, Basile, from Galipoli. Sailed the Francisco, from Ant werp. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 22.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrivecl the Jane, Wil liamson, from Ceara; Diligence, Pearce, from Jamaica; Ann Mary Ann, from New Orleans; Timoleon, Winsor, from ditto; Michegan, Sturges, from ditto; Niagara, Pike, from ditto; Helen Mar, Proctor, from ditto; Caledonia Branch, from ditto; Jehn Dunlop, Scamfield, from Mobile; Tuscany, from St. Joseph's; Adelaide, Davis, from Sa vannah; Nelson Village, Power, from Charleston; Sarah, Nicholson, from Neer• York; Java, from Quebec; Christiana, Harris, from New foundland ; Tartar, from Alexandria; Eveline, Moore, from ditto; Peri, Vivian, from Palermo; Botley Wood, Cutting, from ditto; Thomas Crisp, Crisp, from ditto; and Camoens, Barnes, from Oporto. MARGATE, JUNE 22. Arrived off port, the Duke of Buccleugh, from Calcutta ; Garland Grove, from Jamaica; Druid, Rounce, from Barbadoes; and Marquis Wellesley, from Grenada. RAMSGATE, JUNE 22.—Arrived ofFport, the Repulse, Price, Calcutta. DOVER, JUNE 22.—Arrived off port, the Samarang, Abbot, Matanzas. COWES, JUNE 22. Arrived Prince Christian, Hiorth, Pernambuco. CLYDE, JUNE 20.—Arrived the Hayworth, Graham, and Halyards, Brown, from Demerara. DUBLIN, JUNE 20.—Arrived the Nicholson, Kelso, from Memel. Coax, JUNE 2 . —Arrived the Dash, Huntress, from Cadiz; Tempe. ranee, Le Grand, from Odessa; Sarah, Sharp, from Newfoundland ; Vulture steamer, from London Arrived oft', the Lord Althorp, Marsala. ABERDEEN, JUNE 20.—Arrived the Commodore, Young, from Riga. HULL, JUNE 22.—Arrived the Vesper, Donkin, from Memel. GooLe, JUNE 22.—Arrived the Amicitia, Rubarth, from Dantzic. HARWICH, JUNE 22. Arrived the Waterloo packet, from Hamburg. The Theodore, Tourdain, from Cherbourg to Sunderland, was totally wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, 21st inst. ; crew saved. The Vrouw Maria, Fredericks, from Pernan to Oporto, was run down, 13th inst., to the southward of Elsinore, by the Pallas, Lang, from New York to Stettin. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Rio Janeiro Papers to the 22d April. They men tion that " the papers received from Bahia inform us that the few rebels who had escaped to Campo da Feira have been completely defeated and dispersed. The President is to leave on the 10th to come here on board the corvette Regeneraco. Three vessels, having on board about 800 prisoners, are to sail for Rio. The news received from Rio Grande continue to be favourable. The rebels have experienced a new check; the town of Rio Parda has been taken by the President Elziavio, the enemy having experienced a great loss both in materials and men. Ex change on London 28 ; 9,000 sacks of coffee were sold; the market was animated." We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 29th of April. They state :—"From the frontier we learn that the mutineers of the Cape Corps, tried by court-martial for mutiny and the murder of Ensign Crowe, had been ordered for execution. Nothing has recently occurred to disturb the general tranquility of the frontier. Copious rains have fallen throughout the frontier district, and every thing appears to be most favourable to the farmers ; price of flour still very high. No further intelligence has been received from Port Natal, except that the commander sent from Natal by the British residents there, against Dingaan, had returned, bringing with them cattle, variously estimated in (Efferent letters at from 2,500 to 4,000 head, and 500 women cap_ tives. Thil, also say that the commander found almost no men in the country they thus plundered." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'c?ock. Mr. Parker from the Poor-law Commissioners appeared at the bar with returns, which were laid on the table. On the motion of Sir M. WOOD. the Lords' amendments to the Farringdon.street Improvement Bill were agreed to. Mr. MA 113 LAN D presented a petition from Stockport in favour of Mr. Rowland Hill's plan for a reduction of postage. Also a petition from the Dissenters of the same place against any further endowment to the Church of Scotland. Sir G. SINCLAIR presented a petition from the incorporated trades of Edinburgh, praying for the establishment of a Professorship of Gmlic in the University of Edinburgh.—(A laugh.) The petition was subsequently withdrawn for informality. Sir GEORGE CLERK presented a petition from Edinburgh against the Royal Burghs (Scotland) Bill. THE FUNDS. Both commercial affairs and specu'ations in the funds still continue in the same inactive state as they have been during the week. The accounts received this morning from Rio Janeiro and Bahia are favourable, and business reviving. Consols opened this morning at the closing price of yesterday, 954 for the Account; Reduced, 931 94 ; Exchequer Bills, 69 71 ; Bank Stock 2051,4 .-1. Spanish Active closed 211 22, opened 21 h 2 i ; Portuguese same as they closed, 361 ; Brazilian same as they left off, 791 , 80 ; Mexican same, 24 '25 ; Columbian same, '26 27; Dutch Two and-half per Cents. 541 551. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock - 3 per Cent. i:ce„. . 93%, 4 )itto Boail- 3 per Cant. Cons 3'. per Cent.-- ....,. ........... —' Old Annuities ......, ...... .... , 11 tto Bed. 101 1A; IA I New Ditto . Naw 356 per Cent —, 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17!:%„. New 5 per Cent , . ---! Exch. Bills, Z. I ,c 0" 7l N 1 ten elnk L-mg A nnuitiestoexmre i Ditto; 500 7O otr. Jan. 5, 1:'I0' 1 5 14 5-16 D.ttr: 3mall ~..... .......... 72 :0 pm. (~- c.t. 10. 4;' , . l5 I-16; Ditto Censrncrciat .550. 5. lan. i Ditto A.d . rarttsed_ — (Al, 3 an. 5, two ........ ~,,, ...„ ~ —1 Dank stock for Acc0unt........ April 5, rfl! —llrirra Stock for Acc0unt......... 7--7- J7(1.,, » .. - PRICrS OF FOREIGN FUNDS Auatrn.is Bena, . ...... Belgian ..... 101 i 2% thtto . Brarlianamds 79% 0!,to Account Buenos Ares Bends Mtn Acc0unt........ Bon;ls i Ccrs , ,l;inr A.cconnt 9518 THIS DAY AT OITE O'CLOCK. Peruvian llonds ... .. Ditto Account ...... . • f'crt ugneJe 80nd5...,.... ......... iVitt° Now —.Borpts Ditto Account .... au°, 5 per cent 24 Ditto Account — i rru'isian _ 5crE1'.......... ........ .. _7 . . Ditto Account CJiumb:an Conds Ditto Account ilurnt.ia.ri Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account Bonds ••• ••‘• ••, ...... •• • DAL) Accouut GreQk Bonds...—. ...... •-• Ditto Bonds, 1F325 ....... Ditto Account ........... ,••••• 1 1mcan Lands, 5 per cent — Ditto account Ditto, ti per cent. Ditto Account Neak;elitzai ......... ........ Bonds, id 22 ..... 112 42 Ditto Account ritto metallic .......... Snanish Bonds... ' Ditto Account ... Ditto Bonds, Ditto Account 22 French, 5 pc: --- 4 per cent........... —c ---. 3 per c+• it. ...... Dutch, per c--t 54% Ditto ACCOUllt Ditto, t, per milt too7l, Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THi British Iron Company Great Western Railway Company , Brighton Railway Compan r Loiittin and Southampton Railway , krehestor and Birmingham Itailwa Do. • . Do. Extension Asphalte, Cl :ridge's Patent Do. United States... Bitumen, Bastenne and Ganjac Do. Itobin,on S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per sham 50 11% ........ 11 11% impany 5O 42 1 AL 7 8 714 3% 3.x Ly ........ ...... coursE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F. 12 7 Bate, at tight Ratt critam 2U. 12 74y Antwerp... 1-l a:nhurg. M.B. 13 14 A.llona Paris, 3 days' sigh,, 25 65 flitter ....... .............. 3 Ms l5 95 Marseille, 13 Qurtleaux Frankfort on I`,ltttn., Ex. M 151 PeterAlmigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 0 Bolin Vienna, effective tl ‘) MlO 16 Tri..te ditto lO 17 Madrid ":6 3 A Cadiz.... 17% 13 .reetona S?:ville 56 LNGE YESTERDAY. aibr,:tar 43 Leghorn Genoa 26 5 21 Venice . • 6 Naples . Palermo per on. 116 Lisbon , 314 Oroito Rio Janeiro 2B Bahia 27 Buenos Ayres New York, 21 daye sight Phil delphia PRIOE OF BULLION, PER 02. Portugal Gold, coin '0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 • 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 4 11% HALF-PAST ONE. Consols have been, during the morning, at 95A for the Account; Reduced, 93L 94 ; Exchequer Bills, 71 69 ; Bank Stock, 2051. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 22 with Coupons ; Portu. guese, 36i ; Three per Cents., 24 ; Belgian, 103 ; Colombian, 261; Dutch Two. and.a.llalf, In the Share Market very litte doing, and no change in prices. United States Asphalte improved to 1 prem. ; Robinson's 11 discount ; Claridge's nothing doing. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for Account, 95k. Great preparations are making at Arundel for the approaching Coronation. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk not only gives a dinner to the whole of the children in the town, to the number of about 800, but the parents of them will participate in his Grace's liberality. The Town Council and the inhabitants of the town dine together.—Brighton paper. His Highness Prince Putbus was visited yesterday at Mivart's Hotel by his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipsthal, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duke of Somerset, Earl Shelburne, the Earl of Clanwilliam, the Earl of Clare, Lord William Lennox, Baron Lebzeltern, &c. His Highness, accompanied by Baron Bulow and suite, went to her Majesty's concert after dinner. The Countess of Blessington entertained a distin guished party at dinner on Thursday at Gore House; amongst whom were—Lord Lyndhurst, the Duke d'Osuna, Prince Poniatowsky, Count Zichy, Lord Gardner, &c. Her Ladyship has just launched one of the most beautiful carriages that Barker has ever put out of his hands. It is a coach exquisitely finished, and combines splendour with good taste. ANNIVERSARY OF WATERLOO.—On Monday, about 160 of the Conservatives of Edinburgh and vicinity met together in the Hopetoun Rooms, to celebrate the anniversary of Waterloo. General Sir John Oswald, G.C.8., was in the chair, supported on the right by Sir William Maxwell, Patrick Robertson, Esq., Advocate; Mr. Walker, of Bowland ; Mr. Drysdale, of Pitcadie ; Mr. Learmouth, Col. Oswald, &c. ; and on the left by Sir Francis Walker Drummond, Bart. ; Mr. Burn Callender, of Prestonhall ; Major Pringle, Mr. Monypenny, W.S. ; Mr. Wardlaw Ramsay, of Whitehil!, &c. Mr. Whigham, Ad vocate, officiated as croupier. The speeches were of the usual character —the celebration of Waterloo being rendered subordinate to the expres sion of political and party feelings.—Scotsman. Accounts from Vienna to the 12th instant say— " Though the Emperor's health is perfectly satisfactory, and the pro gress of the disorder as favourable as possible, medical bulletins have been issued which have only confirmed what I have stated. In the young Archduke Francis, too, the symptoms are as favourable as can be wished. All kinds of preparations continue to be made for the Corona tion at Milan." JUPITER.---This planet, which has occupied such a conspicuous place in the starry firmament during this season, is now approaching to its conjunction within the sun, and will, in no long space of time, be lost in the effulgence of that luminary. It is at present seen in the western part of the heavens after sunset, and may easily be dis tinguished from the fixed stars by its superior lustre. It is the only one of the planets which in this respect can at all vie with Venus. A man named Vigoreux, at St. Flour, in the Lozere, who had been condemned for fratricide to hard labour at the hulks for life, and to stand in the pillory, was to undergo the latter pu nishment a few days back. On the officers of the prison entering his cell to take him to the pillory, they found him in bed, from which he refused to move. I - Ic had lacerated his thighs and legs in a dreadful manner, and had ripped open his stomach with a knife, which was buried in it up to the handle. His behaviour indicated that his reason was deranged, and the applic a ti on o f t h e stra i t waistcoat was found necessary to prevent him from destroying himself. VESTRIES IN CHURCHES. Mr. NICHOLL, pursuant to notice, moved that the Order of the Day be read, for the purpose of giving preceJence to the Vestries in Churches Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL was sorry to inform the Hon. Member that such was not the usual course. When the House met on Saturdays pre cedence was generally given to Government measer's. Mr. NICIIOLL wished to establish the contrary precedent. He would not, however, press the matter, if it were the sense of the House that the Government Orders of the Day should be taken first. As there would be no probability of his being able to bring the matter on to-day, he would defer it till Saturday next, if the Noble Lord would give him precedence on that day. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no objection to give the Hon. and Learned Member precedence on that day. The Bill was then postponed to Saturday next. Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR wished to know what public business was to be proceeded with on Monday. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that it was his intention to move the third reading of the Municipal Corporations Bill, before any other business on Monday, as he understood it was contended by the other side to take the sensewf the House upon it. Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR said that it certainly was true that the sense of the House as to the propriety of the third reading was in. tended to be taken. PRISONS BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved the Order of the Day, for going into a Committee on the Prisons' Bill. Colonel DAVIES then rose for the purpose of directing the attention of the House to the expediency of extending the system of separate con finement of prisoners both before and after trial. According to the present plan to be settled by the Bill, the worst offender committing a small crime would be sent to the same gaol as the juvenile offender, which would have all the ill effects of the present system. The Hon. Member referred to the reports of the prison inspectors, from which he read long extracts. The Hon. Member read in so low a tone, and amidst so much noise in the House, that it was impossible to collect the purport of a single ex tract.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable and Gallant Member, after some further observations, which were almost entirely inaudible, earnestly recommending the subject to the attention of the Government, concluded by moving that the Speaker leave the Chair. Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought that it would be better to effect gradually the various improvements which might be made in the system to be introduced after the Bill had passed.—(Hear.) If an absolute rule as to separate confinement were at once laid down, it might excite outcry against the Bill—(Hear)—and he would rather postpone the carrying out of this plan, than run the risk of ob. strutting the beneficial operation of the whole system, by laying down too extensive a design at the commencement.—(Hear.) Mr. GIBSON said it had been found in Glasgow and in the United States to be beneficial that prisoners should have labour offered to them in their cells during confinement, and a stimulus of hoping to earn some thing from that labour. He thought if Government turned their atten. tion to some provision for prisoners after liberation, it would go a great way towards effecting the diminution of crime.—(Hear, hear ) Mr. BRISCOE thought it would become the Government in a ques tion of such immense importance, and involving such a large outlay, if they would consent to the erection of a prison on the separate system at the public expense, within a reasonable distance of the Metropolis, so that it might be frequently visited. It would be better to do so before the whole country was required to enter into a large outlay for the reconstructing of prisons. Mr. HUME entertained a strong opinion on the question of seperate and solitary confinement, and he thought the result, if it could be fairly brought before the House, would prove the uttor inefficacy of attempting to reform individuals by imprisonment. If there should be Societies whose care was directed to the providing of employment for those who had been confined this would be offering a premium to crime, and there would not be the same opportunity offered to individuals who had not incurred the censure of the law, but were equally anxious for employ ment. Out of the prisoners tried in London there were more than one-third who had been in confinement during the preceding year, and yet Government were entering on a most expensive process, and calling on the people in every part of the country to enlarge their prisons. His opinion was, that nothing but transportation could afford any chance of these individuals obtaining a livelihood by their industry. He thought the measure was of much more importance to the country as regarded its expenditure than was generally supposed. He was aware that a difference of opinion existed relative to transportation, but it appeared to him that that question should be set at rest before the country embarked in a large expenditure. His (Mr. Humes's) opinion was, that transportation was the best Plan for reclaiming criminals, in asmuch as it removed them from the place where they had forfeited their station in society, and would afford them an opportunity, hi a place where they were not known of reclaiming their lives, if they were honestly disposed. If they were not ho nestly disposed, all the solitary confinement in the world would be useless, It was well-known that three-fourths of those who came out of prison, again resorted to thieving and stealing for a livelihood. He thought the practice that existed in Scotland of banishment for minor of fences, and allowing the ma❑ to go where he pleased —(A laugh)— would be advantageous. On these grounds he objected entirely to the present proposition. After a few words from Lord J. RUSSELL, The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. Clauses 1, 2, 3, and 4 were agreed to, after a few words from Mr. S MUTT and Mr. BZTIIELL. On Clause 5 being put, which authorised the borrowing of money to build prisons, Mr. HUME. thought some estimate ought to be made relative to the subject of building' prisons, because if transportation were to be done away with the prisons would have to be increased to a very great extent. Mr, lIA WES thought the question of transportation was not at al connected with the subject of the present Bill. The clause was then agreed to On the next clause being read, Mr. HUME rose to suggest to the Noble Lord that this clause should be ;truck out altogether, unless the Noble Lord was prepared to say that boroughs and counties were unable to raise money at a fair rate of interest. If they were unable to do that be would then say let Exchequer hills be issued, but he thought this clause ought altogether to be struck out of the Bill. Mr. GOULBURN was in favour of the cladse. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that if the clause were struck out the Hon. Member for Kilkenny would not gain the object he wished. Mr. HUME said the issue of Exchequer bills had first been resorted to as a measure of necessity in a time of commercial difficulty, but it had of late become an ordinary matter of business. The transactions of the Government ought to be kept separate from those of private in. div iduals. Mr. KEMBLE said that it was not fair to introduce the discussion of a purely financial question into the consideration of a Bill of this kind. Mr. WA RBURTON said that the Commissioners of the Exchequer Loan required to have their power to issue Exchequer bills to be in_ creased, whereas the Government also claimed the power of diminishing the quantity in the market at their pleasure. Mr. P. THOMSON said that there was no inconsistency, such as the Hon. Member for Bridport supposed. If the unfunded debt was too large, there ought to be a rower to diminish it ; and if, on the other hand, a useful occasion for temporarily increasing it, there ought to be the power of doing so. The Hon. Member for Kilkenny said Government ought not to interfere with private speculations. But this was not private speculation. It was a public undertaking, which the public ought to assist, and in which private individuals might not be willing to embark their money. Captain WOOD thought this clause gave the Government the power of burdening the general revenue of the country to a great ex tent, for enforcing this extensive system on the country. Mr. HA WES said the Government had not the power of levying funds for the carrying out of this system till called upon to do so by the Magistrates. To his Hon. Friends who objected to the Bill that it would lead to expense, he would only say that when the design of the Bill was so important as the diminution of crime, and the prevention of moral contamination in the gaols, pecuniary considerations ought not to be urged.—(Hear, hear.) The only way to attain these great objects was boldly to take measures for that end, without the fear of encountering a very large expenditure—(Hear, hear)—and if, at every step, they were to be met by objections as to expense, these objects would never he effected.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME said it appeared, from a return which had been made to a motion of his, that 700,000/. additional expense had been incurred by the increased interest on Exchequer bills. \Vhile 300,0001. had been raised in the county of Middlesex with the greatest ease—certainly at interest of 4 or 4% per cent.—.(Hear, from Mr. P. Thomson)_ Exchequer bills at this moment bore a higher rate of interest than ever was borne in proportion to the amount of trolley in the market, and they were at 675. and 70s. premium in consequence of that high rate of interest Was it not too much that they should be obliged to pay on twenty millions of Exchequer bills that large increased interest merely because from mismanagement there was an excess of two or three millions ? The Honourable Member for Lambeth said this ought not to be a matter of pounds, shillings and pence—that where the expense was intended for the reformation of offenders, the House ought not to be niggardly. He (Mr. H.) said that the Hon. Members were wrong in principle. If they or any other persons wanted to borrow money, let them borrow it as individuals ought, and not at the public expense. His Hon. Friend said this was a public matter. But what had he in Middlesex to do with the prisons of Leeds for instance. If his Hon. Friend the Member for Leeds saw the necessity for accommodating persons in his district, why should behave an advantage in this respect. If money could not be raised in any other way he (Mr. H.) was willing to advance it ; but whilst money was in abund. ante, it was wrong on principle to raise it in this manlier, and he should take the senseof the Committee on the subject. General JOHNSON thought the Government would be better em ployed in relieving the public from taxes than in imposing on them an additional expellee for the building of prisons. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when the numbers were-- For the clause ................................ ..• 96 Against it Majority 18 Majority for the clause ...... . .• • 78 Clauses n up to 9 were agreed to without any amen d ment. O clause 10 being put, which regulated the a pp o i ntment of Chaplains, Mr. LANGDALE thought that something should be done to enable prisoners of the Catholic religion to have a Roman Catholic Llergyman. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he believed it was the usual course when prisoners asked for a minister of a certain persuasion to al!ow them to have one. Mr. lIA WES contended that they ought to deal justly to prisoners of all persuasions—the Roman Catholic ought to have the same chance of reformation as the one belonging to the Church. After a few words from Mr. BRISCOE. Mr. BAINES said there was a provision made for Dissenting Clergy men attending prisons —that was all right enough, but he was very glad to say, that very few, or no Dissenters ever were put into prison. The clause was then agreed to. On clause 11 being read, relative to the superannuation of aged officers, Mr. HUME suggested the omission of the clause. Every one could provide for old age, and they ought not to permit age to come in as a claimant on the public purse, especially when those who would grant the money would not have to pay it out of their own pocket. Mr. HAWES thought there was a great difference between the superannuation proposed by the clause and the superannuation which was so liable to abuse in Government offices ; for, in this case, the super annuation allowances would be granted by:county magistrates, who were payers of rates to a large amount, and would have the granting of the allowances. Col. WOOD considered that this clause would be attended with hard ship to the present jailers and chaplains, who took their situations upon the understanding that they should have two-thirds of their salaries as retired allowances. But the clause before the House only gave them one-fourth. Mr. HODGES, who was very indistinctly heard, was understood to say that the clause required further consideration. Sir E. CODRINGTON spoke of the case (rf a person who had been superannuated as being 59 years of age, who received the pension se veral years, and who at his death was not that age. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had nev er heard of such a case. Sir E. COD RINGTON said it was contained in a return which 13 Y upon the table. Mr. GOULBURN suggested some alteration in this clause, the ira lure of which was not heard in the Gallery. After a few remarks from Mr. HAWES and Mr. HODGES, he Lord JOHN RUSSELL admitted there was some defec t in t he clause, and would, therefore, postpone it for further consideration. _ Mr. HUME hoped the Government would soon be enabled to talo the prisons under its own management, which would be the best meal?s of securing uniformity of discipline. It appeared to bins that it would be better to leave the law as it at present stood until then. After a few words from Captain WOOD, The clause was postponed. Clause 12 was agreed to. On clause 13 being read, Mr. lIUME said he understood that instead of having the Jus tice: of earls district making specific regulations for each prison, th at one st. of rules should be provided for the purpose of securing unifor mity ° discipline. ed Mr. GOULBURN thought there should be some limit to th e per, l of solitary confinement. Whatever its effect might be, when too Pr° tracted it had been known to produce the most serious results. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no objection to an amendment o f the , nature proposed by the Right Hon. Member for the University °' Cambridge. Lord DUNGANNON thought the clause was likely to lead to Iri s ' statements and errors. Mr. HAWES defended the clause, as it would tend to benefit the prlsoner by sending him out of the gaol a much better moral man. Mr. FOX MAULE said the system of separate confinement in Gilts' gow had been found to work with great benefit so far as h regarded the e prisoners themselves, and had given general satisfaction over th e w o of Scotland. Mr.' GIBSON said that in the prison of Clerkenwell, where the silent system was in force, the recommittals were only 33 per cent., an d ce , r f tainly the number of recommittals was a good criterion of the efficacy a system of prison discipline. But in other places where the system wa. not in force, the recommittals were in a less propof tion. He was fav oer a'ile to the silent system, but he did not think that much relianc e was t° be placed upon any reformatory plan of prison discipline. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he did nct entertain any very sanguiu! opinion as to the reformation of adult prisoners, but he thought as muc as possible should be done to prevent imprisonment from making th e worse, and ready to join in any crime when liberated. Whether 00 looked to example, or any other object of imprisonment, it oug ht not to be made a school for crime. He wished every means to be taken fort he providing of employment and instruction, and to see the object of 5 parate confinement as far as possible forwarded. Mr. GOULBUIIN concurred in the opinion which 'nad been pressed, that the separation of prisoners was an essential feature in the system, but his doubt was whether separate confinement might not be accomplished without its being made solitary.—(Cries of " What he wished to have inserted in the Bill was a clause by which unlimited extension of the period of the solitary confinement would be pre% ented. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL feared it would be impossible to iiltr n : duce a definition of the terms separate confinement and solitary confrine.„ most which would not counteract the beneficial results to be derived f . e ll ' it it. It wculd give rise to endless disputes and difficulties,and he thoug ht much better to leave the matter to the discretion of the Inspect° General of Prisons. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON agreed with the Noble Lord the secretiaoll, of State for the Home Department, that this was one of the 'ne st O , portant parts of the Bill. He thought the principle of the clausic.,.e tirely unobjectionable, for prisons as they were at present were a joint stock company for vice. He thought the two differ objects the clause had in view should be embodied in two clau ses. Mr. HAWES thought the object of showing the distinction bet" c o u on solitary and separate confinement would be effected by a P r esta b e l . 1 ~1e; being ntroduced into the clause. oW it Mr. i SLANEY did not mean to oppose the Biil, but he wou ld ta-n t to Increase out for the punis the considhment eration but to find a better of the Governmer entone, w , whosehether o bject wa s iti ° ,,ot A for be necessary to shorten the periods of imprisonment now allotteddor certain offences ; otherwise, if they established either separate confinement, they would in fact double the pu nish"' solitarYent. We shall give the Conclusion in o ur SECOND EDITION• m a yoress Yesterday the Lord Mayor and Lady clung gave a very splendid entertainment in honour of the approa.n the Coronation of her Majesty. The Egyptian-hall was decorated George most magnificent style, and the Duke and Duchess and of Cambridge honoured the hospitable Chief Magistrate and which with their company upon the occasion. Amongst the comPa n Y' ,ri•gh consisted of about 170 persons, we observed, besides their 110Y 3 ' 1 " o f Duke the ncsses, the Duke and Duchess Dowager of Richmond, the Sutherland, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, tcrt Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of . El. f at ry Lord Henniker, Lord Dudley Stuart, Gen. Sir Edwd. Kerrison and is a Ketrison, Lieut.-General Birch Reynardson, Colonel Sir James IleY11:er Baron Knesebeck, the Turkish Ambassador, Mr. Salame, Colonel 13:rt., Bey, Sir R. Inglis, Bart., Sir T. Baring, Bart., Sir F. Nea re t . 13 sir Baron Rothschild, Baron N. Rothschild, Sir C . S. Hunter, 1 3 a r. "; A d/ W. Heygate, Bart., Sir James Shaw, Bart., Lady Sarah AlurraY,:rreii, Green, Baroness Rothschild, Sir George and Lady Carroll, Mis s C Pe ter is Mr and Mrs. Pigeon, Sir Andrew Green, Sir John Rennie, Sir t Prince Ladi Laurie, Sir Chapman Marshall, Dean of Chester, Rev. C. Wc rd ' w° P,ss. Rev. H. Melville, Rev. J. Teason, Hon. J. T. L. Melville, Colonel , ley, Captain Yule, Captain Birch Reynardson, Aldermen ScholeY, ts Brown, Wilson, Lainson, W. Wood, and White, Mr. Josiah Wilson, the treasurer, governors, and medical officer' ° Thomas's Hospital, &c. • the The subscribers to the Jockey Club not ill be secret were on Tuesday astounded to see two of the members enter t billiard-room, each mounted on a poncy. It was soon ascertained th the Common-' Of they had agreed thus to play a match for one hundred Napoleons. Thtee;d performance was curious and difficult enough, and occasionally o°,o, the hilarity of the speculators of this extraordinary contest. The Ina"' was won by Mr. D. C. v.--Ciati g nant. We understand that it has been generally agreed to+ by the Queen's tradesmen in Edinburgh, to illuminate their premises the evening of the 28th June, in honour of the Coronation of her 14°s - Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. A lIC HIMID EA N Sc It EIV.—A correspondent of the Dumfries Courier states that the late Mr. Gladstone, of Castle Doul a i :; spoke of and recommended the patent propeller 18 years eVscreW l6 supercession, therefore, of paddle.wheels by the Archimicican not a new invention. • Mos t On Friday evening Prince Esterhazy gave a t he magnificent entertainment to almost all the Nobility. AnOncrinse company we noticed the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and ion , George, Duke of Sussex, Duchess of Gloucester, Duke of Welling Lora Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Earl and Countess of Brownlow, T o Lynedoch, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Russe ll, Sir llohert;ii Lady Peel. Upwards of twelve hundred were presen t, and tchecoral fault perceptible was, that the place was too much crowded. hundrendd.ppehrtscoen, and persons , ch b e l e e r d e in enthusiasticallyCli and os-stre t , Queen A nn e. tr est en Portlad their names were announced. The company s t e l :s e ar d a ifr ted er a e h n ° tugtuse'° i:cl°°‘ on Saturday morning. m ;al Ilg ( t ) o f , We understand th a t, a t a p re li m inary some of the principal inhabitants of Edinburgh all politics a;d r too st i f i e i ssions, held in the Council Chambers on Mondofay, the L °rei s flu idic the chair, it was unanimously resolved that there s hould be evening entertainment on the 28th instant, on the occasion ef that pr°' jesty's coronation ; and it was farther unanimously resolved, t"i-niog vided the necessary sum can be raised by subscription for ' ' , l tta d With' splendid display of fireworks, an illumination should be di'P e c - , ' „ e r and arrangements made with the authorities to that effect.----"- /se , d " 1 T 1 T T 1E EA- OTALLERS.—These merry - 11 ,„,Ca nal fulks have engaged a meadow behind the Spring Gardens, erithbers, Banks here apart from the bustle a n d rac k e t of the for ib A e the side of the canal, whose precious waters, more costly 313%;ccoPic,'„ city's bankrupt coffers, then if the same quantity of mild ale . sh the" the whole space—these abstemious people will be able to rePlen'orent'; teakettles with the pure and primitive beverage of our fir st t oe" All joy to them and their peaceful efforts!—may they Pu sht ,e i, re ' ll , - , about, with ever increasing delight, and " the longer they 513 —.ndica'" drink, the merrier may they be!" No boisterous mirth 0133'3,1,3e" the exuberance of their enjoyment, but no next morning's be e t - the ir shall bring heavy reflection like a dark cloud over their illeira° ll Jo : s.-- Western Times. have SIGNS OF BEING IN THE WBONG.---Weeno e ,,, p recourse to invectives only when we fail of roof , . BetW ; w rons putants there is a hundred to wa g er against one, that he wh ° sai d will be angry. " Tho u takest thy thunders insteads of rep ll l ' lenippus to Jupiter ; " thou art then in the wrong ."— side ro",,ii4 A London Correspondent of the Dub/in -El l " w ore Pest says the applications for peerages have been upwards of o°--iiiselY than 40 of which have come from Ireland. Amongst the creation, isjr. to take place are mentioned Lords Kenmore, Carew, Isisnrre,: laci erc ate 4 Villiers Stuart. The Marquis of Lansdowne will, it is said, ~ Duke of Kerry. e ßila We learn by a letter of th e 11th i ns t. from I' that the Emperor of Austria is con fi ne d a t S c h cen brunn by a" 'tt :ope the measles. The eruption has c o me ou t f a vourably, and every th e entertained that his Majesty will recover in the ordina r y course - tmi tart disease, so as not to render any postponement of the Coronation 3_cbdalse necessary. The young Archduke Francis Joseph, son of the • Francis, was attacked at the same time with the same complaiote those Glenisla was visited last Monday with one c O i 0 1 iche et, c i c s i thunder storms, t e he occurrnce of which, considering its be a ttra Th c rather rare in our temperate climate. The cloud appeared to e towards the Grampians, and passed over U 3 towards the nortTterrifl- peals were frequent and awfully loud—the lightning vivid a ing, almost instant a neously followed by the thunder roaring ot" 0,4 . in the side. The rain fell in torrents, suddenly swelling all the rivuli woodes vicinity ; these overflowing all their banks swept away se ver e a s neta ine d bridges ; besides which, some newly sown fields of turnip s hav considerable damage.—Scotch Paper. On Saturday morning, between five and si.% a c u ro l° ss c t k tl 'e as a labouring man, named Michael Hurley, w n born Wale fields at Stoke Newington he discovered the body ef ca a g :f e ° o f ( child, wrapped in an old apron, and deposited on th e a ditch. No professional assistance had been rendere d e at the ti c the birth. force °f The Courier de Bourdeaux says that the fire on the explosion from the ignition of the brandy during the alarrningion off Wednesday was so great that the gates of the porte.cochere we re „to th e their hinges, while planks and stones were thrown over the Ona): ,e be ing v or . e roi r ic . i de A tw,o. m ats o h n e g killed.the hospital,w According wounded, cihsoduretddi of fog thesent l o y t s h e et v ,, e l,a n os twwaeecrr accounts ata in as s n s t t P h a 3 r e t ° l e ar e r c r t , enirn‘cgltct 'condition casccre• N tary-General were going on well. scell e On Sunday forenoon, about eleven O'CIOCIC) a pe a 6 of riot and confusion took place in Hungerford Market. I t a .r., Of t ; that two brothers, named Nash, coal-porters, and who reside t'i n ,no alley, were somewhat inebriated, and insulted thosepersons goingdip, from the steam-boats. Policeman F 141, and h be 3 J o ao quested them to desist, when William Nash replied that he wooloto stile knock the policeman's " brain pan in," and, suiting the actitT ine i to word, struck the officer a violent blow on the head, which fen t ' e l . y a' Ile the ground. The beadle, and a brother officer, F 143, tempted to take William Nash into custody, when his brother, a Nash, knocked five officers down in succession, and the mob atterlo-00 rescue, but fortunately assistance arriving in quick time the Pr i loc yca were ultimately conveyed to the station-house in Bow-street, anedsaareo up in one of the cells for examination. We are sorry to say th t.nito are severely injured, and some of the mob attempted to throw then' the Themes. DEATHS BY LIGHTNING.—Deaths from i,the tri ning have been lamentably numerous all over the country. The e e :, papers contain distressing details of calamitous events occasioned " electric fluid. to tal POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS.---Th number of men at the close of 183 7 was 3,421, consisting of 17 s tl 1 tendents, 70 inspectors, 342 serjeants, and 2,992 constable.'4l6 re. number of married men was 2,440, and 981 were single men ; i on signed or were dismissed in 1837. The number of deaths which _ ion pi: in the force during the same year was 40.—Journal elf thc I ,ol° tistical Society.